Sally Ann Howes, the British actress known best for her role as Truly Scrumptious in 1968’s musical “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” has died at age 91.

“My brother & I thought Sally Ann might hold on until the Christmas screening of ‘Chitty Chitty Bang Bang’ as this would have greatly appealed to her mischievous side,” her nephew tweeted.

Howes began her career as a child actor, appearing in “Thursday’s Child” after a family friend, an agent, suggested her.

Through her childhood, she continued working, starring in “Anna Karenina,” opposite Vivien Leigh, “Dead of Night” with Michael Redgrave and “Nicholas Nickleby.”

In the U.S., she starred in “My Fair Lady” on Broadway, replacing Julie Andrews as the down-on-her-luck Eliza Doolittle.